Horacia Beiza and Tirburcio Duarte of Belvidere welcomed their son, Abraham, at 1:30 a.m. on the dot. He was Rockford's first baby born in 2014.

Abraham weighed 7 pounds and 2.3 ounces, and measured a little more than 20 inches in length. By early afternoon, he was sleeping soundly in his mother's arms, a green knit cap covering a full head of dark hair and a striped blanket wrapped around him.

Beiza, with the help of an interpreter, said labor and delivery was "super easy." She arrived at the hospital at 1 p.m. Tuesday.

"I was surprised by it," she said of learning her son was the local New Year's baby.

Abraham is Beiza's seventh child. Daughters Mary, Marlene and Maria, and son Miguel visited the new baby shortly after noon. Miguel competed for some of mom's attention, hugging her and posing for photos with the new baby.

The girls actually picked Abraham's name. Marlene, 9, said she didn't really know why that was her favorite name choice. She plans to help out at home with the new baby, but she's not a fan of changing diapers.

Mohammed, believed to be the last baby born in Rockford of 2013, weighed in at a little more than 8 pounds and was 10 days early. He's the fifth child for Kadum and her husband, Salman Alzubaidi, but only the second boy.

On Wednesday evening, he alternated between sleeping and cooing, wearing a shirt that read "Daddy's happy I'm a boy."